Before you realize our religions are a practice, through and through, there are religions, you know. But after you understand religion, there is no religion because we are always with people, and we struggle with the same problems. What we are doing is not different from what everyone is doing. We find out this truth after going through various understandings and experiences. We come to this certain point again, and on and on we follow this way with people. So that is the point after you go through various religious experiences. And at the same time it is the starting point of religion.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-07-23 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.
